South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
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June 25, 2012
Antiquated Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Scholar ‘par excellence’ Barbara M. Kreutz writes: “Southern Italy has been largely ignored by most non-Italian historians of medieval Europe…they typically glance south...
June 23, 2012
Mario Monti – On his feet before God, On his knees before Germany, On the Backs of Workers
There is no end to the ways that the rich and powerful can con workers out of their money. And the professional biography of Mario Monti documents his impeccably unblemished...
June 20, 2012
The Vatican, American Nuns and southern-Italian Americana
No single institution is more closely associated with the history and culture of Italians south of Rome and west of Ellis Island than the Catholic Church. Christianity born in...
June 7, 2012
“Cosmopolis” (novel) –Don DeLillo a Theater of the Absurd Existentialist, nevertheless a Bronx southern-Italian American
“What are you doing Saturday night?
May 21, 2012
‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini
There is a de facto Gramsci-esque northern-Italian cultural conspiracy being perpetrated against Americans of southern-Italian descent by American university Italian Studies and...
April 20, 2012
Sicily and the “Clash of Civilizations” - Why Greco-Roman...Why NOT Etruscan-Roman or Phoenician-Roman Civilization?
'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons' / ‘Victorious Youth’ 300-100 BC
There are no “History Cycles” – Just the ‘Same-O’ ‘Same-O’!
April 3, 2012
From “Godfather to “Mama’s Boys” – The ever degenerating southern-Italian American media image. So who cares?
There is a clear pattern of increasingly negative dramatic images of southern-Italian Americans in American media from the 1970s Godfather movie to the current reality shows. It...
March 31, 2012
Southern Italy – The Chrysalis of Western Civilization ... Diocletian’s Palace Colonnade
“The Greatest Single Architectural Innovation in History”
Edward A. Freeman - 1879
Southern Italy is the Chrysalis where the Mediterranean culture caterpillar transformed into the Western Civilization butterfly.
March 21, 2012
Mario ("Beddu"!) – Lifetime Vicar of the Rich and Powerful – Hammers the Italian Working Class
Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg
Head of Italy's employers' association Confindustria Emma Marcegaglia, with Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti
OMG! When these two put their heads together – worker’s heads roll! Emma Marcegaglia: "We're in a situation now where permanent jobs no longer exist-- and we must acknowledge...
March 3, 2012
Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)
So Pretty / So Witty / Not Phony / But Soooo Not Terroni .... Spare me Manzoni - Yo / Don’t yah know / American Terroni want / a South of Rome show
February 18, 2012
Sicilian Founders of Rome (revisited...again) – The Logic of Historiography (wonkish: hate philosophy?...forget-about-it!)
Sicilian by nature and nurture, naturally Toynbee’s short (four-page) Annex ‘note’ “Sicilian Light on Roman Origins” in his twelve-volume opus “Study of History”,...
February 4, 2012
Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education
Martorana Church Mosaics - Palermo
If ever it comes to pass, that an American university or college develops a Patria Meridionale curriculum, dedicated to educating the near 17 million Americans of southern-Italian...
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